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Demonstration of Ellipse Definition
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Description: Illustration showing the definition of an ellipse. "An ellipse is a curve which is the locus of a point that moves in a plane so that the sum of its distances from two fixed points in the plane is constant." The foci and major axis is drawn.
Source: G.A. Wentworth Plane And Solid Geometry (Boston: Ginn & Company, 1899) 425
Keywords: conic sections, section, ellipse, ellipses, oval, ovals, focus, foci, major axis, minor axis, definition
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